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Word: towel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mirror sent her packing five months ago. In her place last week appeared "Daughter of Jane," an ectoplasmic 16-year-old who has clearly inherited her mother's inability to keep buttoned up. "Her fundamental attributes," said one Mirror man demurely, "are always covered by a towel." Occasionally the towel is about the size of an un-Sanforized dishcloth. Britons brightened at Jane's return, but the august Guardian, fully aware that Jane had wed Georgie a scant 22 months ago, was aghast at the sudden appearance of a teen-aged daughter. "Can it be parthenogenesis?" asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daughter of Jane | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting a local factory that would employ 250 white women-only to find that the entire county could not supply the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Rural Imbalance | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...STRETCH daily at 3:15, 6:30, 9:45. (Ends tomorrow.) Sunday, Shirley MacLaine parades around in a Turkish towel (on the screen) but it's in ALL IN A NIGHT'S WORK...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDAR | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta movie lot, finally got what he came for: an unflattering shot of Ava in an old bath towel, hair wet and stringy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paparazzi on the Prowl | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...girl in the bath towel will soon try to blackmail the company. When the girl turns out to be a researcher on his magazine he offers her a $200-a-week raise and even a wedding ring, which she accepts, to the relief of Leading Man Martin, who obviously found small pleasure in his Night's Work because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Err Is Humor? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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